mlines
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Why??!
Adapted to standard 13amp domestic socket then plugged in with a standard 13amp plug and then back to shorepower connections.
And left outdoors in the rain and weather, its electrifying.
Shorepower - some people need protection against themselves..
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Why??!
Adapted to standard 13amp domestic socket then plugged in with a standard 13amp plug and then back to shorepower connections.
And left outdoors in the rain and weather, its electrifying.
Jabs
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Genius!
Dare I ask 'why'?
Tony
Dare I ask 'why'?
Tony
awol
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'Tis obvious. 13A plug is fitted with 1A fuse.
tonygibbs
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Got to be a wind up. Nobody is that ****in stupid...are they ?
mlines
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Sadly a real photograph I took the other day, name is blanked out on the plug to protect the potentially deceased
prv
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RCD on the supply, so they're probably not actually going to harm themselves (seen the Youtube vids of people sticking knives in toasters to demonstrate RCDs?). But you do have to wonder what on earth they were thinking with the adapting back and forth. I've done the opposite before (13a -> ceeform -> 13a) as an improvised extension lead where I just needed a couple of feet more reach, but the way it's looped round the box that's obviously not the reason here.
Pete
Pete
GrahamM376
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Oh yes they are! We usually lift out for a few weeks in winter and some of the shore power boxes can be a fair distance from boats. Instead of having a long lead, some people just use extensions rather than long leads and leave the plugs/sockets on the ground even when it's raining, with no protective covering whatsoever.
fireball
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Unless the socket on the box isn't a standard 3 pin?
Perhaps the polarity is reversed or it's a botched 5 pin connection?
Probably not though ...
Perhaps the polarity is reversed or it's a botched 5 pin connection?
Probably not though ...
onesea
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Just an idea but it was not the easiest way to reverse the polarity?
Adjusting a couple of wires in a plug only takes a second...
Adjusting a couple of wires in a plug only takes a second...
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prv
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VicS
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You'd just need a plug to in-line socket link with the wiring reversed. There would be no need for the domestic 13 plug and socket in the middle.
onesea
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I had a screw driver and knew what I was doing 
Koeketiene
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Darwin Award nominee?
David2452
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I see stuff like that all the time, both inside and outside boats, I am no longer surprised (appalled yes) by the shenanigans of boat owners, that is a fairly mild example.
Spyro
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Why??!
Adapted to standard 13amp domestic socket then plugged in with a standard 13amp plug and then back to shorepower connections.
And left outdoors in the rain and weather, its electrifying.[/QUOTE]
Obvious......His wife did it
Obviously mine doesn't read this forum 
Adapted to standard 13amp domestic socket then plugged in with a standard 13amp plug and then back to shorepower connections.
And left outdoors in the rain and weather, its electrifying.[/QUOTE]
Obvious......His wife did it
Obviously mine doesn't read this forum rjp
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Possibly the same person who announced that they had voted UKIP in last week's by-election because the Conservative MP had never done anything for them?
GrahamM376
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It looks as if the shore socket may be 30A and his plug 16A.
oldvarnish
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Agreed
Leighb
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Not sure, but it may be 30A one side and 16A the other? Not unusual to have a mixture on the same post.
VicS
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it still does not justify the lash up with a 13A domestic plug and socket in the middle